Engagement Manager, ProServe EMEA North
DESCRIPTION
The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a highly skilled and versatile Engagement Manager (EM) to join our team and lead the delivery of complex cloud solution projects.
In this role you will combine technical expertise with strong project leadership skills to drive successful implementations of AWS-based solutions for our clients. You will bridge business requirements with technical solutions, facilitating technical discussions and ensuring alignment with customer outcomes. Applying AWS frameworks like Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption Framework while demonstrating technical credibility across diverse stakeholders, you will distill customer needs into clear technical requirements, decompose complex problems, and make informed trade-off decisions considering performance, scalability, security, and business impact.
Possessing strong technology and program/project management experience, you will validate technical solutions against business goals, recognize when additional technical evaluation is needed, and manage technical risks. You will be expected to achieve and maintain relevant AWS certifications, develop domain-specific expertise, and effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and business audiences. As you progress, you’ll lead increasingly complex technical projects, shape cross-organizational technical strategies, and establish best practices in your domain. In this role you will apply your management and leadership capabilities to successfully execute project plans, proactively identify and manage risks, resolve issues, escalate when appropriate, and drive projects to successful completion, while exceeding customer expectation The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud.
We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.
Key job responsibilities
- Leading and managing complex cloud migration and implementation projects
- Leveraging comprehensive knowledge of AWS services, architectures, and best practices to guide technical decisions and strategic planning Bridging business requirements with technical solutions, facilitating engineering discussions and ensuring alignment with customer business outcomes
- Distilling customer needs into clear technical requirements and map them to business outcomes - Decomposing complex technical problems into actionable, deliverable solutions
- Contributing to technical documentation and define documentation standards
About the team
A day in the life
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
About the team
Diverse Experiences:
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 5+ years Project Management hands-on experience in managing and delivering enterprise level IT projects, with external customers or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple and concurrent projects/customers.
• Led teams and engagements utilizing agile approaches, value and principles as well as Scrum framework
• Understands the value proposition of cloud services and has delivered cloud engagements
• Experience with Agile and Project Management (APM) toolsets (Jira, RallyDev, VersionOne, Taiga, etc).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Has at least one active project management certification (e.g., APM, CSM, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2)
• AWS Experience
• Managed technical projects consisting of 4 or more people totaling over $500,000 budget
• Managed and delivered IT engagements for Nordic large enterprise customers.
• Managed engagements using Agile/Iterative methodologies and possesses a deep knowledge of Agile and Scaled program management best practices and how to pragmatically apply across large, complex projects.
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